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Dr. Loxterkamp has been invited to give the Nicholas Pisacano Memorial Keynote Address for the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors (AFMRD) in Kansas City, MO on March 23rd, 2018. He will speak about the importance of culture in residency education and family practice. That...

I have been asked to join a panel discussion to address the "Distraction Epidemic" in American Medicine, to be held in Boston, MA during the AAMC Annual Meeting, November 3-7, 2017. Doctors are inundated with data, focused on checklists, preoccupied with computer screens, and forced...

I have been asked to attend Starfield III, an invitational conference that aims to establish a unified vision for a foundation of measurement for high-performing primary care – building upon work that is already done. It will be held October 4-6, 2017, in Washington, D.C....

Chapter Six: Distraction, Disengagement, and the Purpose of Medicine, in Distracted Doctoring: Returning to Patient-Centered Care in the Digital Age. Peter J. Papadakos and Stephen Bertman, Editors. Springer, Switzerland, 2017
"We live in a distracted society that impairs the doctor’s performance as much as anyone else’s....

Point/Counterpoint: Medication-Assisted Treatment Should Be Part of Every Family Physician’s Practice: Yes. Ann Fam Med July/August 2017 15:309-310
"Let us be the standard-bearers for a community based response to the opioid epidemic. While there is a critical need for informed public health policy, our work is...

David Loxterkamp, M.D. now writes for the "Observations" column in the British Medical Journal. Prior to this, he published a number of essays in the BMJ, most recently “Humanism in the Time of Metrics” (19 September 2013).
His column is called “Letters from New England” and...

David Loxterkamp, MD became the first J. Lewis Signon, Jr. Senior Scholar chosen by the American Board of Family Medicine. Dr. Loxterkamp visited the home office in Lexington, KY for 2 weeks in early April, 2014.
His focus was two-fold: to provide input to the specialty-wide...

Ned Lightner of BCTV interviewed doctor Loxterkamp about his new book What Matters in Medicine: Lessons from a Life in Primary Care. What Dr. Loxterkamp continues to discover and affirm lies at the heart of primary care: that patients need a doctor who offers them...

On Saturday, March 30 at 7:00 pm
(Belfast, ME) David Loxterkamp, MD, co-founder of Seaport Family Practice and a primary care doctor in Belfast for nearly 30 years, will be honored at a book signing party on Saturday evening, March 30, at 7:00 pm at Left...

The Wonder and the Mystery is a remarkable gathering of voices from the front lines of primary care. Speaking honestly, arguing passionately, and singing from the heart, these voices reflect on the power of healing, the many meanings of patient care, and the search for...

Primary care has come into the limelight with the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the unchecked and unsustainable rise in American health care expenditures, and the crest of Baby Boomers who are now Medicare-eligible and entering the most health care–intensive period...

My first book was published in 1997 by the University Press of New England. A Measure of My Days: the Journal of a Country Doctor was soon followed by over forty essays for professional and lay journals (a sampling of these has been provided). And...

My job has continued to change and unfold. It is now even less like that of my father, a GP, or Dr. Ceriani, who was the subject of the first LIFE Magazine photoessay. But it is no less satisfying, nor taxing, nor heroic.
What makes a...

The cover of the June, 1998, issue of LIFE Magazine showed the picture of a doctor delivering a baby. The title asked, “What makes a good doctor?” Inside, LIFE answered that question by looking at one rural family practice in Maine. But Journalist Claudia Dowling...

In 1997, American journalist and senior host of the NPR newsmagazine Weekend Edition, Liane Hansen spoke with David Loxterkamp, author of A Measure of Days: The Journal of a Country Doctor.
In Liane Hansen’s last broadcast, she follows up with the Maine physician, who says he...

The story of a country doctor in Belfast, Maine. This is a short excerpt from a documentary produced for ABC NIGHTLINE.
Dr. David Loxterkamp is a family doctor in the small town of Belfast, Maine. He is a doctor for all of his community, from delivering...

David Loxterkamp, a family physician describes the universal struggle with adversity & discovers strength through work, faith, community, & love.
This is the story of one year in the life of a family physician in Belfast, Maine, and his connections not just to that community but...

Family doctors see the world through a different lens. A series of photographs from LIFE Magazine, June 1998. The photographer is Lynn Johnson (See Website)
Lynn Johnson is known for her sensitive work in both color and black & white. She has produced photoessays for magazines...